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Desecration of a church in Vitry: ‘They stole the body of Christ’

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L’église Saint-Germain de Vitry-sur-Seine.

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Agnès Pinard Legry - published on 01/16/22
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The church of Saint-Germain in Vitry-sur-Seine was desecrated during the night of January 6. Besides the physical damage and robbery, it is above all the theft of the consecrated hosts that worries and saddens Father Joseph Lokendandjala, the parish priest.

A week after the desecration, the emotions still run high. Located in Vitry-sur-Seine, in the Val-de-Marne, outside of Paris, the church of Saint-Germain was desecrated during the night of January 6. A parishioner alerted the parish priest, Father Joseph Lokendandjala, that a small door that was usually locked was open. Father Lokendandjala immediately went to the church and found that the church door was broken. When he entered the church, he discovered that three of the four boxes in which parishioners make donations were broken and that the reception door was broken (this is where the offerings of the masses are usually kept). But the most serious incident took place at the front of the church…

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